Six hundred and thirty-five light years away from Earth, there is a world that seems to promise something almost unimaginable: a planet covered in a vast liquid ocean, where survival might actually be ...

The Kepler mission has confirmed its first potentially habitable world, a planet 600 light-years from Earth in a 289-day orbit around a smaller, cooler version of our sun. The planet is a "super-Earth ...

The planet mentioned in the first episode of the new Apple TV series Pluribus really exists and it's been used in a different ...

The planet, shown here in an artist's conception, circles its host star in 290 days Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a nearly Earth-sized planet in the "habitable zone" around a star not ...

What if you lived on the distant planet Kepler 22-b? Experience life under alien skies, strange gravity, and unknown ...

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Astronomers have confirmed the existence of an Earth-like world orbiting a star like our Sun in its "habitable zone". The planet, Kepler 22-b, lies about 600 light-years away and is about 2.4 times ...

This week astronomers have announced the existence of a planet discovered to be in human livable range of star not unlike our sun, with a size 2.4 times that of our Earth and a temperature of ...

The planet, shown here in an artist's conception, circles its host star in 290 days Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a nearly Earth-sized planet in the "habitable zone" around a star not ...

The planet, shown here in an artist's conception, circles its host star in 290 days Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a nearly Earth-sized planet in the "habitable zone" around a star not ...